The Mysterious Rider

By: Grey, Zane

Book Excerpt: ...up in her like a strong tide. Some one to lean on, some one who loved her, some one to help her in this hour when fatality knocked at the door of her youth--how she needed that "It might be bad for me--to tell me, but tell me, anyhow," she said, finally, answering as some one older than she had been an hour ago--to something feminine that leaped up. She did not understand this impulse, but it was in her."No " declared Moore, with dark red staining his face. He slapped the lasso against his saddle, and tied it with clumsy hands. He did not look at her. His tone expressed anger and amaze."Dad says I must marry Jack," she said, with a sudden return to her natural simplicity."I heard him tell that months ago," snapped Moore."You did Was that--why?" she whispered."It was," he answered, ringingly."But that was no reason for you to be--be--to stay away from me," she declared, with rising spirit.He laughed shortly."Wils, didn't you like me any more after dad said that?" she querie...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B08KH3THTB
• ISBN13: 9798678223029
• Release Date: January 1
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"